Shirt



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SHIRT.

No. 562,636 Patented June'ZS, 1896 ffc,

UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICE.

SOLOMON K. MEYERHOFF, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 562,636, dated June 23, 1896..

Application tiled February 24, 1896. Serial No. 580,514. (No model.)

.To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, SOLOMON K. MEYER- HOFF, a citizen of the United States, residing in Philadelphia., Pennsylvania,have invented certain Improvements in a Combined Shirt and Tie, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to so combine a necktie with a shirt that it will form a permanent part ot' the shirt and can be washed with it. The necktie is so arranged that the shirt can be opened in front without disturbing the tie.

My invention is especially applicable to neglige shirts made of washable material, and I prefer to make the tie of the same material and of the same pattern as the shirt, but the tie may be made of a different pattern and may in some instances be made of other materia-l.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a front view of sufficient of a shirt to illustrate my invention, the tie being unfastened. Fig. 2 is a similar view showing the tie fastened. Fig. 3 is a sectional plan view on the line 3 3, Fig. 2. Fig. 4. isa sectional perspective view. Fig. 5 is a view of a formin which the loop is permanent. Figs. 6 and 7 are views of other modiications.

The shirt shown in the drawings is an openfront shirt and the tie is on the outer iiap A. The inner iiap A is made in the ordinary Inanner and simply has a button a, to which the outer iiap can be secured, and in this outer flap is a buttonhole a' for this purpose.

As shown in Fig. l, the band B,which forms the bow of the tie, is an extension of the neckband of the shirt and is of a sufficient length to form the two bows, as shown in Fig. 2. The loop is formed by a short section D, extending from the upper edge of the neckband, and, as shown in Fig. l, this section has a buttonhole d, adapted to a button a2 on the lower portion of the neckband, so that when the shirt is put on the wearer first buttons the neckband, then turns the section D over, buttoning it to the button a2, forming the loop of the tie. Then the free end of the section B is passed through the loop to form the righthand bow :n and returned to form the lefthand bow x, the end of the portion B resting within the bow in, as shown in Fig. 2. Thus the tie is formed, which resembles the ordi- I nary looped tie. A By simply releasing the outer flap from the button a the shirt-front can be opened and the shirt removed without undoing the tie.

In Fig. 5 I have shown the section D of the tie permanently in the form of a loop, being fastened at the top and bottoni to the band, the section B forming the bow being made in the manner shown in Fig. l. In this View, Fig. 5, I have shown the tie made of material having a different. design from that of the shirt.

In some instances I may extend the neckband of the outer iiap A to form a tip independent of the section B, Fig. 6, said tip having a buttonhole, so that the shirt can be closed Without interfering with the tie, the buttonhole a in the section B being dispensed with. The buttonhole may be arranged also directly back of the loop-section and this loop-section D may be attached to the button which astens the two neckbands together, as shown in Fig. 7 without departing from my invention.

My invention is as applicable to a shirt with a stand-up collar as to one having a lay-down collar, as shown.

I claim as my inventionn l. As a new article of manufacture, an open-frontI shirt, provided with a section B forming a continuation of the neokband and having a loop attached thereto at the neckband through which the said continuation is passed back and forth to form the bow of a tie, substantially as described.

2. As a new article of manufacture, an open-front shirt, provided with a section B forming a continuation of the outer iiap of the shirt and having a section D extending from the upper edge of the neckband, with means for securing the end of said section D to the lower edge of the neclrband to form a loop through which the continuation B is passed back and forth to form the bow of a tie, substantially as described.

3. As a new article of manufacture, an open-front shirt provided with a section B forming acontinuation of the neckband of the outer flap of the shirt, said section having In testimony whereof I have signed my a buttonhole a. by which the outer Hap is sename to thisspeooation n the presence of cured to the neokband of the inner Hap of the two subsolbng Witnesses.

shirt, and a section D forming a loop through SOLOMON K. MEYERHOFF. which the section B is passed back and forth Witnesses:

to form the bow of a tie, substantially as de- VILL. A. BARR,

scribed. Jos. H. KLEIN. 

